Ric Allsopp: “Notes on Poetics and Choreography“
21.10.2013 I 11 am-1:00 pm keynote and discussion
For the third Erasmus Intensive on Composition: Poetics and Procedures this initial keynote asks what might be at stake for individual solo work, signature and authorship, and provides a background to what might constitute a poetics of radical coherence for individual practice. It aligns a poetics of writing with a poetics of movement and draws on work in both mid-twentieth century projective and contemporary poetics (Olson, Bruns, Fisher, Nichols) and a poetics of contemporary dance (Louppe) that suggests that both poetry and dance are 'languages' that operate in excess of the functions of language, and open the possibilities of radical approaches to coherence and affection.
By: Ric Allsopp
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By: Ric Allsopp
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Video documentation of the lecture (in three parts):
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Video references included in the presentation:
Cocteau, Jean (1949) dir. Orpheé - Radio Transmissions
Clarinda Mac Low (2012) The Pronouns (Experiment #1)
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Bob Cobbing (1968) Marvo Movie Natter
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Sandra Umathum: “The Art of making a Performance – Xavier Le Roy’s Product of Other Circumstances“
22.10.2013 I 11 am-1:00 pm keynote and discussion
In his performance Product of Other Circumstances Xavier Le Roy not only presents the result of a working process. Instead, the working process itself becomes the subject of presentation and reflection. Le Roy gives insight into the particular circumstances he was confronted with and, in doing so, he also addresses general conditions of contemporary artistic production. In my lecture I will, on the one hand, focus on the way this performance deals with the challenges of performance making. On the other hand, I would like to bring into discussion nowadays artistic labour with respect to questions of research, professionalism/dilettantism, economics of time, etc.
By: Sandra Umathum
Read the full paper online (click here)
By: Sandra Umathum
Read the full paper online (click here)
Miika Luoto: “Work, practice, event: On the “poietic”
23.10.2013 I 11 am-1:00 pm keynote and discussion
A work of art is both produced and “productive”. Coming forth from human activity, it essentially exceeds this activity as it allows the coming into presence of something. How to think about this “production”? The Greek word for production is poiêsis (which also designates “poetry); according to Plato, it means the cause of the passage from non-existence to existence. For us moderns, however, it is difficult to understand such a coming into presence that may take place either naturally or through human work. First of all, we lack the essential Greek distinction between poiesis and praxis, between production and action, and these two furthermore tend to be confused with “working” in the sense of encountering the necessities of life. As a result of this confusion, human “doing” is appreciated more and more with respect to the subjective will expressed in it, so that freedom and creativity are but manifestations of that will. Here, the “poietic” character of art is lost from sight. However, experiences made in the arts as well as in philosophy point to the need to take up again the question of poiêsis. In order to engage in a re-thinking of the meaning of “artistic practice”, we must try to return from the modern opposition between technical and aesthetic production back toward the original dimension of poiêsis, in order to be exposed – both in art and in thought, here it is the same – to the event of presence taking place in art.
By: Miika Luoto
By: Miika Luoto
Elena Giannotti: “Rider in Arena - A history of contingency”
24.10.2013 I 11 am-1:00 pm keynote and discussion
Rider in Arena
A history of contingency
Rider in Arena is the title of a series of solos and also a personal history of practicing ‘making dance’.
My experience of practice can be narrated through anecdotes and storytelling, recalling a personal story, where a natural attitude to isolation and a recondite approach to dance is also contaminated by the crowd.
Rider in Arena is also a jump into future. The work is not finished yet: the capacity of imagination and dreaming is a primary tool for me to diverge creation from conceptual thinking.
By: Elena Giannotti
A history of contingency
Rider in Arena is the title of a series of solos and also a personal history of practicing ‘making dance’.
My experience of practice can be narrated through anecdotes and storytelling, recalling a personal story, where a natural attitude to isolation and a recondite approach to dance is also contaminated by the crowd.
Rider in Arena is also a jump into future. The work is not finished yet: the capacity of imagination and dreaming is a primary tool for me to diverge creation from conceptual thinking.
By: Elena Giannotti
Vaginal Davis: “Beware the Holy Retarded Whore -The Temporary, Contemporary Contemporaneous Free Style of Vaginal Davis“
28.10.2013 I 6:00 pm Artist Talk
Like a Bull in a China Shop Ms. Davis will righteously rant about her three decades long career as an underclass, underground artist breaking all the rules of propriety and politeness as she unsettles middle class notions of civility and structure in discourse. Prepare yourself for some tense and awkward moments as she unleashes her Black Madame Mao wrathe.
With: Vaginal Davis
With: Vaginal Davis